Absolute or Situational Ethics??

It is hard for someone to put one absolute rule for hundreds of thousands of situations. Even the professionals themselves break the absolute rule of no digitally fixing a photo when they crop or fix scratches. I think that it depends on the situation at hand. For example, making the sweater longer for the exotic dancer so it didn't show her undergarments was ok becuase it didn't change the story, but if you were to change the length of a sweater to make someone look pregnant or something along those lines then it is wrong because a false story is being made and therefore a lie. I think that a photo can capture the truth, even if the truth is one of many. Photojournalists that edit reality are obviously liars, which is not acceptable, but photojournalists that edit merely for image reasons(like if you crop, change the lighting, or change the exposure) are ok in my book.

Photjournalism Ethics: Dove Commercial

In the commercial the company changed the complete look of the model. They lengthened her neck and made her eyes bigger and better shaped. They changed her ears also. I think that the changes that they did were very extensive but I don't think what they did was wrong. The manipulations didn't content of the picture, it was still a woman selling a product.

Under what circumstances is it worse than others?
Some circumstances are bad like putting one person's face on another person's body and making an embarrassing picture. The picture can ruin the person's reputation even if the picture was just an innocent joke.

What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
Changes that make a person look completely different are not good. In the dove commercial the people that changed the photo changed the woman, what looked like a lot, but in the end, when her face was on the billboard, she still almost looked the same. They didn't make her look bad in any way and they didn't change the content of the picture.

Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism:
Fashion photography is about selling a product. Whether the product be makeup or clothes, you have to sell the product and you have to do whatever it takes to sell the product. In photojournalism you have to show the truth. There would be an outrage in the masses if a made up article in the newspaper showed up, and it is the same with photojournalism. You can't make up the story behind the photo. In the end the point of fashion photography is to sell a product and the point of photojournalism is to display the truth through pictures.

What relationship does each have to reality, and how does this affect the ethics of each?
In fashion photography there doesn't have to be a serious reality, but in photojournalism there has to be only the reality because that is what photojournalism is all about.

Ethicals Photos??

I don't have a problem with the change. The only change they made was to make her look better and I don't know why a change in appearance would change the subject. The fact that she is more tan doesn't change the fact that

she had lots of kids.

I don't think that this picture is ethical. The "photographer" didn't do any subtle changes, they drastically changed two photos and made a completely different picture. They insulted not only the two people in the picture but everyone who looked at the picture as well.

Ethics

The UW-Madison article was about the university photoshopping in a black person and replacing a white person's face watching a football game in order to illustrate that the university was racially diverse. I think that the university was wrong in doing what they did becuase if they wanted to show that the university was racially diverse they should of got a real picture that illustrated just how racially diverse the campus was or they should have kept the original picture. Their plan backfired when they wanted to make people happy making false shows but really they made people more upset.

Ms. C. Pie gets angry at her manager for not making the modeling company pay her $5,000,000 instead of $2,000,000. She was named cutest and nicest baby of the month. I guess things changed.

Funny Caption

Billy is just hanging around on a nice Saturday afternoon. If it wasn't for those mean FFA kids who tried to take his horns off he would have never had the opportunity to run, jump, and get stuck on a telephone wire.

Funny Picture

Sugar Cube walks back to her house after a long day of primping at the doggy salon. Her and her owner were trying to shape coordinate for their big bash that their friend Black Coffee and Half A. Half were throwing.